Re: GCC2 merging (was "native language support now available")

[David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>]

>>>>> Richard Kenner writes:

Richard> "GCC2" is not a corporation or a funded entity, or even a small number of
Richard> specific people.  It's mostly a set of volunteers who submit patches and test
Richard> the result.  Both RMS and I tried very hard to convince the people who
Richard> originally wrote the patches to submit them to the GCC2 project when they
Richard> were no longer exprimental and also tried to find volunteers to assist in
Richard> this process.  Nobody came forward except Andreas Schwab, who submitted the
Richard> regmove.c part of EGCS, which I subsequently put into GCC2.

Richard> So I'm not sure who you are being critical of here.  If you are being
Richard> critical of the fact that nobody volunteered to do the work (or even to
Richard> indicate when a particular piece of work was no longer experimental), then I
Richard> strongly agree with you: that lack of volunteers was most unfortunate and has
Richard> created the position we are now in.

	I have volunteered to integrate rs6000 port, collect2, and loop.c
changes into GCC2, but you have made it very difficult for me to the point
where I do not have time to perform the additional work above and beyond
addressing technical matters.

David